What are the names of some abbreviations dictionaries?

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The names of some abbreviations dictionaries include "The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary," "Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms," "Gobbledygook Book: Dictionary of Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initializations and Esoteric Terms" and "Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations." These are in circulation and available for sale at different bookstores.

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"The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary" is the third edition of a popular dictionary. It features more than 20,000 abbreviations of popular terms used in email, texts, airports, personal ads and other common locations. Its publisher updated it in 2007 to offer over 300 pages of abbreviations.

"Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms" is part of the Wordsworth Dictionary collection. The first volume of this dictionary came into publication in 1997. The 1998 edition offers more than 250 pages of information that writers and readers need in the modern world.

"Gobbledygook Book: Dictionary of Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initializations and Esoteric Terms" features more than 300 pages of everything a reader needs to know about abbreviations. It first came to the market in 1995.

"Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations" is a specialized dictionary for those working in the medical industry in some capacity. This is a sixth edition, and the size makes it portable. The book, last updated in 2008, comes with a CD-Rom.